Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

General consultant to mankind.